Sad Light Verse Poems

you know he’s a Jib
the way you can tell
he jingles and jingles
like a jingly bell

but sometimes their jingle
mysteriously goes
then Jibs cry all day
and why, nobody...

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I was sad and in despair
Yet someone cried for me
I was destined for deaths grasp
Yet my soul He saved alas
Voicefully not quietly choir sings from...

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Don't be sad, why be blue
Royalty blue, purple hue
HOLD YOUR HEAD UP
Heavenly steps keep your feet clean
Jesus carries us, there's no reason for us-to talk
HOLD...

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!!!CAVEAT LECTOR!!! This one's a bit naughty, dear readers...

You've heard of Snow White
And the story reported
Of the seven wee dudes
With whom she consorted.
Well, here's the...

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She had to stretch on tiptoes to kiss Prince Frog
He stood still, but his polka dots were quivering
He liked attention from sweet young girls

She thought...

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A willing heart is a willing soul

Be not sad 
our Father in you
 in me He has planted seeds
 in US we are bearing fruits...

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Under a warm
dawn light,
my words of wind
turn into signs
of love and poetry and longing...
Hidden in an ethereal light,
my distant lover
follows my thoughts
and songs with a...

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Wonderworks
by Michael R. Burch

History’s
mysteries
abound
& astound,
found
(profound)
the whole earth ’round,
even if mostly
underground.


The Procrastinator’s Creed
by Michael R. Burch

It’s always, “Tomorrow, I’ll do it.”
Work? I eschew it.
I never collect...

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When fairy tales were in fashion, before true love was rare,
A prince wooed a maid who was flaxen and fair.
He came every day and patiently...

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Of late I find myself talking at length 
to my dog – just “puppy talk” at first.
Then with a familiar grown-up vocabulary
 
most doting dog-owners...

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Sad dried up rivers
sharp stones stand out
neither chaos nor hell it seems...

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Sad

Savior Always Delivers

Sun above the skies
My Father holds the ties
His love for me so rise

In this world I’m sad
In the flesh at the point of...

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It is not St. Paddy's day!” the eight-year-old informed me.
He was the sixth person to say that to me today.
“I never said it was,” I...

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Your soul cannot die.
She is here for a reason.
It is imperative you listen to her.

Soul listeners cannot be depressed.
They cannot stay sad long.
They are enthusiastic...

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I saw myself dressed
   in steps of gray pantalon...
   I saw me on a sad Saturday
   lost in another...

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